Clint Eastwood can talk to as many chairs as he likes. Mitt Romney is still going to lose
in November.
By Dan Hodges US politics Last updated: August 31st, 2012
Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech got off to a barnstorming start. “Mr Chairman and delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States!”, he boomed. During Romney’s last major public appearance, he’d told the audience the next President of the United States was going to be his running mate Paul Ryan. So by last night he’d clearly decided to raise his game, and his sights.
Though when I say boomed, that’s not strictly accurate. As he delivered his opening line he actually tipped his head to one side in a slightly coquettish way, and smiled humbly. Humility was to form a key part of Mitt Romney’s speech. In fact he was so at pains to come across as a humble man from humble origins there where times I started to think the GOP had selected Uriah Heap to take on Barack Obama.
Romney had a bit of a tough childhood. Or rather, his parents did. His father was a Mexican refugee, his mother a beautiful young actress (who in an inversion of convention, ran away from Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming a Mormon). There were he said, “too many long hours and weekends working”. His parents struggled with “five young sons who seemed to have this need to re-enact a different world war every night,” which, given memories of the last Republican to occupy the Oval Office, was a bit of a worrying admission.
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But it’s his head. Mitt Romney’s head is a prefect oblong. In fact it’s so perfectly oblong it’s a geometric marvel. For whole passages I entirely ignored what he was saying and began trying to measure the screen with a ruler and protractor to work out if the Romney skull is a genuine equiangular quadrilateral. It is.
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